By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
There are precedents, but we can forego these if we want. I don’t have to use Google’s keyboard. I can even degoogle my phone with Graphene OS. Some black boxes remain of course but they are small and relatively secure. Meanwhile a client-side scanner is adding an unavoidable increase to the attack surface. That’s a weakened security environment. And not just for your cat videos, but for journalists and others dealing with sensitive materials.
I can’t wait to see how many horrible implementations devs come up with because this feature provides no value for their employers.